ShadowGun is an extremely awesome third person shooter where you move from cover to cover, killing enemies, and getting closer to Dr. Simon while getting paid. In the future, there are bounty hunters and so you play as John Slade, who is a ShadowGun, which is a name given to the best, and your current mission is to bring back Dr. Simon back. In case you’re wondering who Doctor Simon is, he’s a mad scientist who conducts experiments on people and genetically modifies them using them as his henchman, and calls them his “Sons”. Your job to capture him or even kill him if necessary by playing through 10 awesome, fully 3D and vast levels which have graphics that have never been seen in any iOS shooter before. Sounds fun right? Read on below for our full review of ShadowGun.

Positives

ShadowGun has tons of positives, the environment, the graphics, the weapons and much more. As I said earlier, it is a TPS (Third Person Shooter) and is the best of its kind on the App Store to date. The moment your brain starts crawling to the fact that ‘this is getting repetitive’, the game reads your mind and puts a giant lobster like robot or a huge ‘Driller’, wanting to crush you to pieces, right in front of you. There is a unique secret to killing each one of these things. The weapons are pretty awesome too — the shotgun being my personal favorite. ShadowGun also has an awesome machine gun, rocket launcher along with a grenade launcher! The environment is a Unity-powered work of art by any means. It seems very realistic and immersive. You must also activate switches, and ‘hack’ stuff (you only have to remember a series of numbers and put them in) in order to advance. Oh, and did I mention there are those annoying little spiders that crawl up to you and blow up? And the brain-like flying thingies that shoot lasers at you? And the robots that shoot bullets? And the explosives? And your personal Android Assistant (S.A.R.A.) that helps you throughout? Just buy the game and you’ll see them all.

Negatives

While ShadowGun doesn’t have a lot of negatives, there are still a few. If there’s one thing I thought could be better, were the controls. The button to shoot can get glitchy at times and it’s really annoying as you take hits causing you to die. Another thing is the placement of checkpoints — if there is a big robot and you die, you don’t restart just before you met it, in fact, you restart even before and it takes long to get to get back where you were originally. The last thing is, though you can unlock a grenade and rocket launcher, you still wish you had grenades which you could throw over the wall and watch those guys blow up. So grenades would be a nice addition as well.

Bottom Line

ShadowGun is the best looking shooting game of its kind for iOS that is available to date, crashes once in a while, has an extremely awesome and interactive environment, 10 levels, many different enemies, a personal android assistant and so much more! So, if you have at least $8 in your iTunes account I suggest you go and buy this amazing game. ShadowGun gets a rating of 4.5/5, for being almost a perfect game.